By Dana Phillips.

This is a great little poem, author unknown, to remind us of the value of obstacles.

There once was an oyster

Whose story I tell,

Who found that some sand

Got into his shell.

 

It was only a grain,

But it gave him great pain.

For oysters have feelings

Although they’re so plain.

 

Now, did he berate

The harsh workings of fate

That had brought him

To such a deplorable state?

 

Did he curse at the government

Cry for election,

And claim that the sea should

Have given him protection?

 

‘No,’ he said to himself

As he lay on a shell,

Since I cannot remove it,

I shall try to improve it.

 

Now the years have rolled around,

As the years always do,

And he came to his ultimate

Destiny ─ stew.

 

And the small grain of sand

That had bothered him so

Was a beautiful pearl

All richly aglow.

 

Now the tale has a moral,

For isn’t it grand

What an oyster can do

With a morsel of sand?

 

What couldn’t we do

If we’d only begin

With some of the things

That get under our skin.

How Will You Improve Your Grain of Sand?

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